News and Awards

WAYS OF SEEING

After losing her eyesight during adolescence to retinitis pigmentosa, a patient recently received an artificial retina at The Harkness Eye Institute -- an experimental technology that might restore her vision

Dr. Stanley Chang Receives Castle
Connolly “Physician of the Year” Award

Dr. Stephen Trokel elected to The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Hall of Fame

Nurses at Harkness Institute win highest awards from Press Ganey for third year in a row.

The Department of Ophthalmology at Columbia University Medical Center is proud to announce the opening of The Gloria and Louis Flanzer Vision Care Center in the Spring of 2010.

Stem Cells Restore Sight in Mouse Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa

Findings Could Affect Future Treatments for Macular Degeneration,
Stargardt Disease & Other Forms of Retinal Disease